From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:46:31 +0000   
   Richard Kettlewell  wrote:   
      
   > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   > > Ben Collver  wrote or quoted:   
   >   
   > >>Has social media engineered the collapse of the human mind?   
   > >   
   > > Already in the 70s, we had a band named "Devo", who believed   
   > > mankind had begun to regress.   
   >   
   > Never mind the 1970s, how about the 370s BCE?   
   >   
   >     “And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a   
   >     paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to   
   >     them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours   
   >     will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will   
   >     not use their memories; they will trust to the external written   
   >     characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you   
   >     have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and   
   >     you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth;   
   >     they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing;   
   >     they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;   
   >     they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the   
   >     reality.”   
      
   Right. Time to ban books.   
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)